Welcome, to one of the finest, oldest, most historic road courses in the United States. Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, an icon of motor racing’s past, present, and future. Today, this 4-mile ribbon of asphalt is to be tackled by the GT4 and TCR production-based sports cars of IMSA’s Michelin Pilot Challenge Championship. This race marks the seventh of ten races for Michelin Pilot Challenge in 2021. A field of 37 automobiles lines up ready to tackle this legendary circuit. Originally, the racing started here on the streets in the 1950s in Elkhart Lake, and it is raining now. It is falling for now so everyone will be out there on wets. Turner Motorsports and the #95 car of Dillon Machavern and Bill Auberlen have a tie with the #16 Wright Motorsports Porsche Cayman of Trent Hindman and Jan Heylen. Those are the points in Grand Sport. Michael Lewis and Taylor Hagler have a massive lead in points in TCR right now.
Two hours is the duration of this event. We are missing the #71 Rebel Rock Racing
Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R of Frank DePew and Robin Liddell. So, 36 cars are going to start and now we see
the #61 Road Shagger Racing Audi RS3 LMS TCR in the pit lane. Tricky conditions out there. That’s for sure. We have a 65% chance of thunderstorms. The front wheel drive cars might have a
slight advantage on this damp road. We
are going to find out soon enough. It is
soaking out there as the cars run behind the safety car. The humidity is at 90% but the temperature is
only in the 70’s Fahrenheit. So, here we
go then. It is getting to be that time
where we will be racing.
Safety car into the pit lane and standy by for action. Here we go!
Into the lead goes the #95 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT4. The battle for second is close too as we get
a start from TCR as well and a challenge for the lead. Ryan Norman is the TCR polesitter but already
into turn five, a challenge for the lead of the motor race by the #4 Winward
Racing Mercedes AMG GT4 of Russell Ward is pushing, hard. He started fourth and is already scrapping
for the lead as things get scruffy in the middle of the Grand Sport pack. Down the hill through The Carousel. Russell Ward is monstering Dillon Machavern
and here comes Patrick Gallagher making a move into Canada Corner!
That is the #23 Notlad Racing by RS1 Aston Martin. This is a voyage of discovery for sure. Lap one done and dusted. Cars on rain tires have been told to use
their red flashing rain lights. Makes
perfect sense. Everyone has their
headlights on and most of them are on the Michelin Pilot rain tires. Brian Henderson in the #84 Atlanta Speedwerks
Honda Civic TCR moves past the #17 JDC-Miller Motorsports AudI RS3 of Chris
Miller as the #93 Audi R8 spins and crunches the wall. A spot of bother there for Mark Siegel. He is limping back to the pit lane.
Spinning, and crunch!
Mark Sigel is regular driver Nolan Siegel’s father. So he is stuck in the mud here for now and
will have to have the course workers snatch him and get him going again. Patrick Gallagher up to second ahead of
Russell Ward. All top four cars are
front engine and rear wheel driver followed by Ryan Hardwick in the #16 Wright
Motorsports Porsche Cayman and we have our first Full Course Yellow. There has been contact. Yellow flags early doors won’t benefit
drivers except for fuel saving mode.
That’s pretty much all. Again, we
are just circulating behind the safety car as there is now a mist hanging in
the moraine here at Road America which will likely make it more difficult for
the drivers to see.
As long as you have one Bronze rated driver on your team,
you can compete for the championship.
People enjoy racing for trophies and want their racing efforts to be
recognized. Great idea. Absolutely lovely. Only Silver and Bronze rated drivers are
allowed to run in Michelin Pilot Challenge.
No Gold or Platinum rated drivers are allowed in the championship. Ryan Norman leads TCR over Brian
Henderson. Hyundai vs. Honda vs.
Audi. Harry Gottsacker starts the sister
Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra followed by two Hyundai Veloster’s.
We have more action tomorrow with the IMSA WeatherTech
Sports Car Championship and you will read about it here on Endurance… The
Sports Car Racing Blog, as well. The
safety car lights are out. Dillon
Machavern takes control of the field.
Patrick Gallagher will be right on his six. Here’s the restart. Machavern leads over Gallagher and here comes
Russell Ward. Gallagher wants to
dispatch of Russell Ward. Ward is
filling his mirrors and here comes Gallagher and Ward wants it through the
moraine sweep. Ward knows discretion is
the better part of valor. Ward wants the
spot into turn six as we can see more power available and more fuel capacity
for Hugh Plumb to push sharing with Matt Plumb, the two brothers.
Grand Sport cars could go 45-50 minutes on gas and Machavern
is loose into The Carousel and here comes Gallagher for the lead pf the motor
race! Yikes! Save the car and then go for the place. Ward wants it and wants it bad. So many of these teams are still in the
championship hunt. Be smart. Be reasonable. Stevan McAleer and Patrick Gallagher are not
in championship contention, but they only care about race wins. That is what they want. Machavern decides discretion is the better
part of valor. Machavern had to pinch
the car before he could have lost control.
Gallagher and McAleer have won and then finished second. Ryan Norman leading TCR over Brian Henderson
who is right on his tail. They have
split some of the other Grand Sport cars that have much more horsepower but the
TCR cars have cornering grip. The Grand
Sport cars are beasts. Henderson in the
middle of the road and Norman on the traditional line as Chris Miller and his
team have found reliability on that Audi.
They’ve had power steering and fuel pump problems in some of the most
recent races. TCR leaders move past Ted
Giovanis in the #64 TGM Camaro GT4.R.
So, the racing action here at Road America is hot and heavy already with
just over 20 minutes elapsed.
More battles emerging in GS between the sister Turner
Motorsports BMW, the PF Racing Mustang, the Murillo Racing Mercedes, and
more. Quite the variety of automobiles
in Pilot Challenge between the Grand Sport and TCR cars even though the TCR
machines are very similar to each other with 4 cylinder turbo engines of two
liters in displacement with about 300 brake horsepower and front wheel drive. The GT4 cars have a wide variety of engine
cnfigurations and are rear wheel drive for the most part. Whoa!
There’s a pass going into turn five as the #11 FCP Euro Mercedes AMG GT4
is trying to pass the #46 TGM Chevrolet Camaro and Hugh Plumb spins in turn five.
They have not had the season they’ve wanted in 2021. There will likely be a yellow today and it
was the squeeze play as Michael Hurczyn established his line in the #11 FCP
Euro Mercedes AMG GT4. The #46 Camaro
team wants to keep their noses clean. But now they will have to dig and really go
for it. Any way you slice it, if they
get a Full Course Yellow, they will be able to move in and get the job
done. It’s greasy and the car gets
misted up in this rain with the windscreen.
But it is really a feel for where your competitor is when they are right
on your six.
Every driver wishes it would rain which means that it is
drying, but on a dry track, the Michelin rain tires are going to start to
chunk. Put slick tires on soon, but
there’s more rain coming. You are stuck
in a hole. Keep pushing as we watch
Sheena Monk in the #3 McLaren 570S GT4 for Motorsports In Action. The Carousel and The Kink are dry, but there
is more dampness in Canada Corner up the hill to the front straightaway. This team had to retire from the most recent
race at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut. Robin Liddell says that the #71 Rebel Rock
Camaro has not been in the race today, and the reason for that is that there
was a driveline vibration and cracks in the chassis of the car.
They welded the chassis together, but Robin Liddell knew the
car did not feel right and did not feel safe.
Smart move. In 2019, there was a
photo finish that led them to win the race.
The team won in the rain here at Road America in 2019. That was an amazing finish. Poor old Kuno Wittmer had the win in his
pocket and hit the pit lane speed limiter instead of cuing the radio. Meanwhile, everyone is skating around on the
track and er have drivers using their windscreen wipers. But it is tire degration more than dampness
on the road at this moment in time.
No one has made the jump to slick tires. Could there be torrential rain? Could there be a red flag? Don’t overheat these tires though because
then the tires could fail very easily.
Ryan Hardwick had drama through the kink, spinning and grazing the wall. Wow!
That was a close one! When you
spin the car and hit the concrete barrier, your day is done and it is game
over. The car’s alignment looks OK if
you eyeball it. Road America creates
opportunities because the track is so long.
Left front tire flat on the #51 Hyundai Veloster. That is A.J. Muss in the Copeland Motorsports
entry sharing with Mason Filippi.
The going is treacherous here at Road America. Meanwhile, back up front, and the battle
rages on between Patrick Gallagher, Dillon Machavern, and Russell Ward. Aston Martin vs. BMW vs. Mercedes. Through Canada Corner, poor old Muss is
crawling back with the tire flailing.
You can hear it, whack, whack, whack, whack, against the bodywork. Oh no.
He’s lost that tire. It is gone. It’s three wheels on my wagon for Muss,
look. That tire is now track
debris. The marshals will have to
retrieve it and the fender is shearing itself off that secondhand motorcar as
we speak.
Porsche #16 is stopped dead stick on the road as well! What could be the matter with Ryan
Hardwick? This is massive for the
championship! Patrick Gallagher
continuing to lead. This field is very
deep. Sheena Monk has dropped like a
stone after troubles last time and now, Ryan Hardwick and Jan Heylen are
stopped on the road. Gamble and get that
car into the lane. Roll the dice, and
speaking of rolling the dice there are several takers as Ted Giovannis hands
the #64 Camaro to Owen Trinkler. Pt stop
time for Patrick Gallagher too, handing over to Stevan McAleer. They have all the tools to win races.
BMW #95 in the lane and Bill Auberlen is back into the car replacing Dillon Machavern. Four wet Michelin tires and a load of fuel. Trent Hindman takes over from Alan Brynjolfsson in the #7 Volt Racing Aston Martin as well. BMW #96 for Turner Motorsport is in the lane as well. Vinny Barletta sharing with Robby Foley. Pit stops continue as we have an hour and 15 minutes left on the board. Atlanta Speedwerks, are in and out of pit lane after service and a driver change in TCR. The TCR cars are pitting as the #16 Porsche is being towed back to the garage. Under yellow, we have seen Michael McCann in the #8 McCann Racing Audi R8 GT4 take the race lead ahead of Tony Gaples in the #34 Black Dog Speed Shop McLaren.
Third now is Brent Mosing in the #65 Murillo Racing Mercedes
AMG GT4. Ryan Norman leads TCR ahead of
Brian Henderson, Harry GAottsacker, and Gavin Ernstone. So, it is Hyundai, Honda, Hyundai, Audi. Atlanta Speedwerks Honda, the meat, in a
Hyundai sandwich. Ernstone in the Road
Shagger Racing Audi RS3 LMS TCR. Time is
of the essence. An hour and ten minutes
to go. The track appears to be drying
out, slowly. Places are not completely
bone dry yet. But this is a four-mile
circuit, so, some of it will be wet and other segments will be dry.
Ah. McCann gives it
up from the lead and heads for the lane for service. He is likely to hand the car over and yes, co-driver
Andrew Davis will take over. This moves
Indy Dontje in the #4 Winward Racing Mercedes back into the lead of the motor
race. Ryan Norman in the TCR Hyundai
Elantra now runs second in the overall. Dillon
Machavern says he had a blast driving in the spray on his stint. He seems to be very confident about how the
race is going and Bill Auberlen is ready to drive the second stint and they
ended up leapfrogging the Aston Martin and here’s the TCR pit stops.
Parker Chase will take over Hyundai #98 as Ryan Eversley has
taken the wheel of the #94 Atlanta Speedwerks Honda Civic TCR as well. Some heavier rain is off to the west, but in
45 minutes, we could see some clearing.
By then, the race will conclude.
Try hard not to give up track position.
Where will Ryan Eversley cycle into the lineup when we go back to green
flag racing? We can see the rain
puddling on the road somewhere on this vast circuit here at Road America. Fsns are loving this racing but they will
have to take shelter under their umbrellas today.
Time to get back at it. Here we go into the restart. Indy Dontje leads Bill Auberlen and Stevan
McAleer. Mercedes, BMW, Aston Martin. Auberlen screams around Dontje! Wow!
He is on the move! Here comes
McAleer as well, look. There’s not a
driver in the field who knows the BMW like Bill Auberlen does, who knows their
car the way he does and the #56 Mercedes AMG GT4 of Eric Foss loses grip and
spins into turn five! Yikes! That was close. Deep on the brakes, onto the paint, and he
rotates! He went to the ABS and the
brakes are released so the car is not slowing as much as he’d like. Jeepers creepers!
Anything painted is going to be amazingly slick in the
rain. Ryan Eversley in the Honda is
dropping like a stone! He has a problem
with that car. Goodness me! Less than an hour to go. Tim Lewis Jr. in the Alfa Romeo lead
TCR. KMW Motorsports with TMR
Engineering, they have had a fast race car but haven’t had the results they
wanted until finishing second in class at Lime Rock last time out. The Honda, something is wrong with the
handling. It is very lively and maybe
something broke in the rear end of the #94 Atlanta Speedwerks Honda. He is scrambling with the handling. Going into the corner, he is going to have
trouble.
It sounds like he is experiencing lots of handling woes with
the sway bar. Tim Lewis Jr. and company
feel that the fruits of their labor are starting to show. Lewis Jr. says the car is handling extremely
well as the rain is falling and the weather is becoming a factor. Speed is not the issue for Alfa Romeo, but it
is the reliability, the longevity of the automobile. Tyler Maxson and Tyler Gonzalez, those two
are pushing. The Tyler and Tyler show,
and Maxson won the title in SRO TCR racing last year. In the wet, it is easier to follow someone to
see how they are driving. The race track
in these conditions is really evolving.
Everyone is a guinea pig here.
Auberlen knows how quick Stevan McAleer is in the Aston
Martin. No trouble for Turner
Motorsports from their most recent pit stop.
This is an angry handling Honda race car. Ryan Eversley is screaming on the radio, “I
need to come to pit lane!” Road America
is special because Ryan Eversley made his NASCAR Cup Series debut here at Road
America last month on Independence Day. Bill
Auberlen is on a Saturday cruise, looking for another victory. An all Mercedes battle ensues on track as we
now see the Honda coming to pit lane and we are also watching the #34 Black Dog
Speed Shop McLaren and the leading BMW M4 GT4 for Bill Auberlen and Turner
Motorsports.
Car #18 is also running well, the CB Motorsports Mercedes AMG
GT4 being shared by Trenton Estep and Mark Kvamme but things weren’t all wine
and roses just a wee while ago as the car rotates on the whirligig through the
grass! It is back underway now. A big scrap here, look, between the #4
Winward Racing Mercedes and the #57 sister car.
49 minutes left in the race. The
mist hangs in the air, the spray off the wet weather Michelin tires. That is Alec Udell pressing his teammate Indy
Dontje. Udell was ahead just a moment
ago.
Spencer Pigot in the #3 McLaren and then Trent Hindman in
the #7 Aston Martin. Ryan Eversely is in
the lane fixing the car, the car he shares with Scott Smithson. He is struggling on slick tires and needs wet
tires. Michael Lewis in the #77 Hyundai
Veloster, he too, may also be running slick Michelin Pilot tires. Lewis is a very talented driver. Wow!
Look at the rain! It is pouring
again or will be pouring soon. Lewis in
the Hyundai is alive while Eversley did not have the side load or the
temperature in his tires. Goodness
me. It is like running on glass or on
ice.
Watching these cars race can be dizzying for fans and
drivers alike and we saw the #18 get on a merry go round. Check the scores with the judges for the
Olympics as his rivals take evasive action.
Around, around, around, around, over, under, and through, for Trenton
Estep. He shares that car with Mark
Kvamme. Kvamme has run LMP3 cars,
Lamborghini Super Trofeo, TCR here in Pilot Challenge and now, a leased
Mercedes AMG GT4 in Grand Sport. They hope
to eventually run two cars. Alec Udell
tries Indy DAontje, no dice. Here comes
Tarent Hindman and then Scott Andrews, the Australian, in the #21 Toyota Supra,
the Riley Motorsports car.
Andrews sharing with Anton Dias Perera. They have their team car #14 as well with
Javier Quiros and Alfredo Najri. Hindman
takes the gfight to DAONTJE AND Bill Auberlen is still whistling off into the
distance. This race is not over
yet. What will we see in terms of the
championship points? That’s another very
valid question. More cars and more
battles on the road as we have a whole clump of cars battling for position in
Grand Sport. Hard to see anything but
headlights through the downhill to turn five here as the spray is on the road
and hanging as mist in the air with all the lovely trees and forests here in
the Kettle moraine.
Uh oh! The #13 AWA
McLaren of Kuno Wittmer spins into the grass at the final turn, turn 14. Kuno Wittmer escapes the grass far better
than yours truly would escape the sand trap as a bad golfer. So, Wittmer is back on the road,
pushing. He cannot believe that he spun
out. The rain is thickening. The skies have opened. Calm down, Kuno. Keep running your race, sunshine. Indy Dontje is really motoring. Their best finish at this track is seventh
and Dontje has his hands full with Trent Hindman and Scott Andrews too. Andrews is extremely fast who won LMP3 at the
Rolex 24. Oh no! Contact and Andrews is pushed wide by Dontje
after he clips the Benz!
Andrews is slow. There
is a piece of debris on the road. Andres
out of the draft, Dontje sets up for the turn, and, crunch! What will the marshals have to say about that
little shemozzle? The visibility is
becoming horrid. We check in with Chad
McCumbee in the #40 PF Racing Ford Mustang with that fabulous sounding Coyote
Ford V8 under the bonnet. He and
co-driver James Pesek have been running really in a good spot. Paddle shifting on that Mustang makes driving
the car much easier. He has a SAAC
Shelby Mustang as well and he played Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the “3” Dale
Earnhardt biopic movie.
Scott Andrews apologizes to his pit crew. He is coming into the pit lane and the left
front is busted. He says “I’m so, so
sorry, lads.” The track rod and the
steering are bent out of shape. Game
over. He could have chased Spencer Pigot
in the #3 MIA McLaren. Bill Auberlen
stretches his margin over Stevan McAleer.
Andrews moved to the left and there was usre argy bargy between the two
cars and the right front took the hit, busting the suspension to pieces. After the #16 Porsche parked in Canada
Corner, the tie has been broken if the Turner Motorsports BMW boys end up
winning this motor race and they will gain 260 points going into the next race.
#95 have been really consistent here in 2021 with Bill
Auberlen and Dillon Machavern. Hyundai
#77 runs wide in turn five and this is Michael Lewis taking the car to the end
of the event so we believe Taylor Hagler, she has already run her stint in this
race as Lewis has to dance on the throttle in these greasy, slippery, wet
conditions. The windscreen of that
Hyundai streaked with water and oil and other detritus. Tim Lewis Jr. in the #5 Alfa Romeo leads TCR
but has #98 Parker Chase really applying the blowtorch.
The rain intensity is picking up and so is the racing
intensity. Here comes Parker Chase on
the outside in The Carousel and tup to the Kink! Wow!
That rimshot through the Carousel is where the grip is. Wowzers!
Parker Chase has found the rain line and it shows in his lap times. He has great car control even in the wet so
he won’t knacker his tires. Mark Wlkins
and Harry Gottsacker are next up in the sister #33 Bryan Herta Autosport
Hyundai Elantra. That is Mark Wilkins,
not Harry Gottsacker. They started mid
pack. The Alfa Romeo is the meat in the
sandwich between two Hyundai’s.
Massive commitment by Parker Chase through the
Carousel. He has taken off like a
scalded cat. The Alfa team are a little
tight on fuel and Mark Wlkins has been all over him like a cheap suit. Trouble for the #23 Aston! Flat left rear tire for Stevan McAleer! Oh no!
This will hurt them for sure.
Slow down. Don’t hit the fender
and the brake lines. He will top up on
gas too. He could come back but time is
of the essence. Who has the petrol to
make it to the finish? Who has the tires
that are good and not knackered? Stay
tuned. This motor race is far from over. I’ve said it once and will say it again. Michelin Pilot Challenge at Road America. Hot stuff!
#77 in the lane for service. This
is the Hyundai, the Veloster three door hatchback. Notlad in the lane changing the dud left rear
Michelin.
They are serviced and sent.
As we ride aboard the Hyundai again, we can see the track here at Road
America is wetter than an otter’s pocket.
20 minutes to go, mate. Push it,
push it. OK. OK.
I’ll push it! The third-place
scrap in GS is hot too! Trent Hindman
has it and Alec Udell wants it. This is
the race for the final podium spot.
Turner Motorsports and Bill Auberlen lead by 16 seconds over Spencer
Pigot in the McLaren, and they might be tight on their fuel load. More drivers are burning off the petrol with
such a short time to go. The rainy
conditions are iffy. So is the fuel.
The Full Course Yellow is going to be a saving grace for
many if we get one. Udell makes his move
on Hindman. A racing driver, they push
themselves and make themselves uncomfortable from time to time. Again, motor racing is not always wine and
roses. Spencer Pigot might also be short
on petrol. Whoa! Hyundai #98 off and on, Parker Chase, class
leader in TCR! Yikes! The rain is coming down harder and harder. It is tipping down! The visibility is getting worse. Last year in the WeatherTech race we had
similar conditions with undrivable, blinding rain.
Tim Lewis Jr. has come alive in the #5 Alfa Romeo and so has
Michael Lewis (no relation), in the #77 Hyundai Veloster. This race is not done yet. The #34 McLaren runs wide at turn five, the
Cooper/Gaples entry. With today’s rain,
we can only wonder what the weather forecast for the WeatherTech Championship
event tomorrow will look like. Will we
have rain? Will we have blue skies and sunshine? Tim Lewis Jr. resumes in the lead of TCR, the
Alfa Romeo Giulietta. They ran second
last time out at Lime Rock Park. Can
they win today at Road America with 12 minutes to go?
His biggest issue is fuel.
Dennis Dupont is chasing down Mark Wilkins in the #33 Hyundai
Elantra. Just over ten minutes to go
now. Bill Auberlen is fuel saving and
Spencer Pigot is coming in a hurry.
Another spot of bother for the #18 Mercedes and also the #46 TGM
Chevrolet Camaro of Matt Plumb! Deary
me. Trenton Estepp will get back on
track as Spencer Pigot is in the lane for a splash and a dash. Udell and Dontje in the AMG Mercedes’ move up
but Alec Udell also needs a splash of gas.
#18 rotates on the wet grass in the Carousel and Matt Plumb, thud, right
into the wall out of the Kink, and he had a head of steam, washing out wide,
and thud, into the Armco.
Bill Auberlen and Dillon Machavern, it is going to be
squeaky, squeaky time on the fuel here. Turner
Motorsports strategist Don “The Ice Man” Salama, looking on. Do the math and see where you are with just a
short time to go. 15 seconds in the bag
for Auberlen running laps in the 2:37 range.
Can he slow down enough and not run out of gas? He will hit it right on the nose, perhaps. He has three laps, 12 miles to go and we have
just about six minutes left.
Goodness. The drama is high
here. He will have to slow it down to
three-minute laps and slow 20 seconds a lap with a 15 second cushion. There is going to be at least two laps to go.
If Indy Dontje and Alec Udell have to pit, they are good,
but uphill on the straight out of turn 14, out of Canada Corner, it is
tough. Alec Udell does not care about
the championship and wants to win the race.
Ditto for Indy Dontje. Will these
blokes be in the catbird seat? Auberlen
leads by almost 15 seconds. Spencer
Pigot and McLaren had to blink. How
about Chad McCumbee? What about Robby
Foley in the sister Turner Motorsports BMW?
Tim Lewis Jr. might be a tad shy on gas as well. Mark Wilkins is home and hosed over Dennis
Dupont. This will be down to the
wire. Alec Udell is low on gas. This is
a fuel mileage race sliding off turn one for Bill Auberlen.
Downhill, it is all coasting. Jon Morley in the #61 Audi RS 3 LMS TCR runs wide in turn five, the Road Shagger Racing car. Five drivers within fifty points in the championship coming into this race. Will they stretch the fuel? Will they dive to the lane? Auberlen stays out. Turner Motorsports will gamble. Four miles to go. One lap more. Will he throw the rope? Coast on the downhill runs. He leads by 15 seconds and has to run slower than the TCR’s. Is the car coughing and sputtering? He is still coasting through 20 stories of elevation change in one lap here at Road America.
Flat to turn seven and downhill to turn eight,
coasting. Auberlen is a great driver and
a keen engineer. He will be able to
squeeze fuel. Run a taller gear in the
rain. Through the Carousel once
more. He has not reached for the reserve
tank. Wait. Now, he does.
He has to be cautious not to get run over. The team are anxious. It is nail biting time. Final lap of the motor race. Uphill to the start/finish line. He is not home and hosed yet. But will he be? Auberlen and Machavern win their second race
of the 2021 Michelin Pilot Challenge season!
Wow! Second repeat winner of the
year.
In TCR, Tim Lewis Jr. has most of the lap to go, half of the
lap and he has fuel starvation trouble, perhaps. He has to be careful. Mark Wilkins and Dennis Dupont are the hungry
wolves chasing him. Will Lewis Jr. have
the fuel? They are in it to win it,
through the Carousel. Wilkins and Dupont
want to see the car stumble and Wilkins is out of gas, slowing in the
mist! Dupont is coming. What does he have left in the locker? Here comes the mountain of the front
straightaway. Can Lewis take his first
Michelin Pilot win?
Yes! The Alfa Romeo
makes it. Alfa Romeo win! Tim Lewis Jr. and Roy Block win TCR!
Overall/Grand Sport: #96 Auberlen/Foley Turner Motorsports BMW M4 GT4
TCR: #5 Lewis Jr./Block KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering
Alfa Romeo Giulietta
This was a wonderful race to watch! Next up for Michelin Pilot Challenge will be the
Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Championships at Laguna Seca Raceway on the
Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, California, coming up next month. So long for now, everyone, from Road America. Excited for tomorrow and the WeatherTech
Championship race.
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